enterprise networking.
* [[http://www.itcvolta.it/it/default.asp | Istituto Tecnico-Commerciale Alessandro Volta]] -- High-school diploma
- in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**.
- This course included a good amount of **Electronic Engineering**.
+ in **Mathematics and Computer Science** with a rating of **56 out of 60**.
+ The track included good amounts of **Electric Engineering**.
=== Non-formal studies and self-teaching ===
-Over the years I tried to compensate for lack of proper university-grade
-education by making the local libraries much richer:
+To compensate for the lack of good academic institutions in the '90s, I became a good customer of the local bookstores:
- * **Compilers**, reading several textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools,
- and many others.
+ * **Compilers** -- textbooks such as CompilersPrinciplesTechniquesAndTools and several others.
* **Algorithms** -- many, including classics such as DonaldKnuth's bible TheArtOfComputerProgramming,
- CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still
-brillant, "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
-
- * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which quite
- theoretical and boring. Of course, my favorite will always be AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
+ CambridgeUniversityPress's NumericalRecipes and NicholasWirth's ancient, but still brilliant,
+ "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs".
- * **Networking** -- Several books, including TcpIpIllustrated, several RFCs and
- technical papers.
+ * **Operating Systems** -- Too many to mention here, most of which were quite
+ theoretical and boring. My favorite will always be AdvancedProgrammingInTheUnixEnvironment.
+
+ * **Networking** -- Several books, including TcpIpIllustrated. RFCs and technical papers.
* **Programming Languages** -- All the obvious textbooks such as BjarneStroustrup's
SeePlusPlusProgrammingLanguage, and many others like the old SeeProgrammingLanguage,
* **Programming Techniques** -- Countless. Such as SeePlusPlusTemplateMetaprogramming
and the controversial ModernSeePlusPlusDesign by AndreiAlexandrescu.
- My absolute favourite is BrianKernighan's and RobPike's ThePracticeOfProgramming.
+ My absolute favourite is Brian Kernighan's and Rob Pike's [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/ | The Practice of Programming]].
* **Software Architecture and Design** -- All the "must-read" classics such as
GangOfFour's DesignPatterns, UmlDistilled and UmlDesignPatterns.
- * **Project Management** -- My favourite certainly is TheMythicalManMonth, but I've
- read a few others such as ExecutionPlainAndSimple.
+ * **Project Management** -- My favourites are TheMythicalManMonth and
+ [[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AntiPatternsBook|AntiPatterns]], but I've also read
+ [[http://www.amazon.com/Waltzing-Bears-Managing-Software-Projects/dp/0932633609|WaltzingWithBears]],
+ [[ExecutionPlainAndSimple]] and a few others.
* **Technical Writing** -- TheElementsOfStyle and DonaldKnuth's TheTexBook are my
favourites on the topics of stylish writing and typesetting.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading DonaldKnuth's ConcreteMathematics and
CambridgeUniversityPress' NumericalRecipes.
- * **Database** -- Relational algebra, principles of schema normalization, SQL.
+ * **Database** -- Relational algebra, principles of schema normalization, SQL.
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